“Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.” IdeasBigsDisasterProgrammingSoftwareComputingSoftware Engineering Author:Gordon Bell
“The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.” ProgrammingSoftwareEngineeringComponentsProgrammersComputer ProgrammingSoftware EngineeringSoftware DesignComputer ProgrammersComputer SoftwareSimplicity In DesignProgramming Funny Author:Gordon Bell
“I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.” ThinkingHumansImportantAbleRememberMemoriesForgetFeatures Author:Gordon Bell
“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.” FirstsFatherSkillsSixWirePlugs Author:Gordon Bell
“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.” SchoolMotherFatherTeacherGradesSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolEighth Grade Author:Gordon Bell
“People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.” PeopleBookMemoriesNumbersPhonesCellsAddressesCell PhonePhone NumbersNo MemoryAddress Books Author:Gordon Bell
“Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.” WellsGuyCompanySkyProjectsBlueLike MeBlue Sky Author:Gordon Bell
“I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.” NextHouseMemoriesFireCamerasPhotographPleasantStationsComing OutHookLaddersPleasant Memories Author:Gordon Bell
“I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.” ThinkingProblemInterestingTweet Author:Gordon Bell
“Computer scientists are the historians of computing.” ComputerScientistHistorianComputing Author:Gordon Bell
“I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.” PeoplePersonsDoneJobsScienceFiveTeamHundredFiftyEngineeringBeing DoneEngineering Inspirational Author:Gordon Bell
